Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of 80s Home Computers

Re:Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of ... by johndoe0815 on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:07AM (#30467409)

A Raspberry Pi 400-size ARM-based Mac, maybe with an A15 CPU/SoC (similar to the Mac Mini ARM developer transition kit, which had an A12Z) could be an interesting low-cost option.

It would probably still require 8 GB RAM to be useful unless Apple manages to reduce the RAM requirements of macOS significantly. This amount of RAM will probably be too expensive for a low-cost device.

Edit: fixed CPU info for the ARM Mac DTK

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Re:Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of ... by dylan604 on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:22AM (#30467574)

Why would it need to run macOS? If it is a companion to a headset, it could run some version of iOS/iPadOS. or maybe even something dedicated like vrOS

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Re:Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of ... by johndoe0815 on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:29AM (#30468276)

Sure, the systems are similar enough on kernel level (and I also want to run macOS on my M1 iPad Pro 11", the SoC is identical to M1 Macs :)) - but then the user would have the hassle of getting an external touchscreen to work with a keyboard-oriented computer. I think that Apple's multitouch implementation helps a lot to make iOS/iPadOS as comfortable to use as it is right now. An external touchscreen, possibly connected via USB, will probably have higher latencies and maybe also less precision.

I can't imagine using i(Pad)OS with mouse and keyboard only right now, though I know it's possible.

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